Dayforce Powerpay

With Powerpay you are not 'wondering' if your input will have the desired effect on an employee's pay cheque. You can actually see what the employee will be paid, what their tax burden is for the month! Not many payroll companies offer this feature. It's terrific to process payroll and know that the employee will receive the correct remuneration. No 'retro payments' to keep track of!

Data entry for inputting hours, creating ROE's, year end reports. Can't think of where it would be less appropriate, it's nice to have robust functionality.

Dayforce is excellent for companies where all employees are on salary as you can select "run as is" and be confident that your payroll will run every pay period.
Where Dayforce is less convenient is for payroll with hourly employees. Sometimes all the hours aren't available by the cutoff time and then it is necessary to run an Extra run to pay out the employees who submit their hours late. QBO payroll allows these employees to be added as soon as the hours are available at no extra charge.

Dayforce would be appropriate for any business with multiple employees. Government remittances are simplified and rates are always current and relevent. The mobile app provides all workers whether on site or remote access to their employment records both current and annual.

Customer Service has been horrible for Dayforce and Powerpay. They have some knowledgeable staff but an equal amount that will steer your wrong. They ignore cancellation requests so they can charge you more, they ignore verbal confirmations where you request 1 month of a particular service then charge you more because you didn't send in a formal cancellation. Overall the best experience I've had with Ceridian has been mediocre but for the most part I'm happy to have moved over to ADP.

In all honestly I don’t know a situation where Ceridian Powerpay would not be appropriate to use. I have used it at a company with 12 employees, and at a company with 100 employees. The system works great regardless of company size and the benefits significantly outweigh any (if any) negatives.

Ceridian Powerpay is useful for an organization with either a small or large workforce, with a reasonably simple payroll setup. Our organization does not have any complicated commission schema, so Ceridian Powerpay works excellent for standard payroll that doesn’t change too much from week to week, often with salaried employees that have predictable compensation. I would hesitate to recommend Ceridian Powerpay to an organization with more complication pay systems, especially if they are larger as Ceridian Powerpay seems better suited to standard payroll without anything outside of the norm. While not feature-rich overall, Ceridian Powerpay gets the job done, and it is easy to use, so you can rely on multiple users in the organization being trained to use the software without requiring a significant investment on your part.